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List:       koffice
Subject:    Re: kword documents - cross platform woes.
From:       David Faure <faure () kde ! org>
Date:       2003-11-05 6:44:28
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On Wednesday 05 November 2003 03:20, Jeff MacDonald wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> This situation is a bit confusing, so read carefully.
> 
> Nelson = Freebsd 5.1 box
> -bash-2.05b$ kword -v
> Qt: 3.1.2
> KDE: 3.1.2
> KWord: 1.2.1
> 
> Millhouse = Gentoo box.
> [bignose@milhouse:~] kword -v
> Qt: 3.1.2
> KDE: 3.1.4
> KWord: 1.2.1
> 
> ---
> 
> My roommate composed a 45 page document in kword on NELSON.
> 
> I transfered it up to my machine, Millhouse, and opened the
> document in Kword.
> 
> When I opened the document, all of the text was scramled,
> indents were changes, page breaks were not consistant etc..
> 
> Fine good enough.
> 
> So to save running up and down stairs, I enabled SSH X11
> Forwarding. I sshed to Nelson FROM Millhouse, and started kword.
> I opened up the document and to my suprise, it didn't look the
> same as if i was sitting infront of Nelson, it looked like as if
> i was in front of millhouse with a local version of kword. 
> What's up with that ?

Fonts differ. Identify which font you're using and copy it over.
Double-check whether Qt is using fonts via X or via Xft, and make
sure it's the same on both machines (check if Qt links to libXft,
and whether "xdpyinfo | grep RENDER" finds the render extension).

-- 
David FAURE, faure@kde.org, sponsored by Trolltech to work on KDE,
Konqueror (http://www.konqueror.org), and KOffice (http://www.koffice.org).
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